Here are this week’s biggest tech headlines
Every Friday, The Kupon4U publishes our flagship podcast, The Kupon4Ucast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories.
This week on The Kupon4Ucast, Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Russell Brandom start the show with news of federal judge James Boasberg allowing the FTC to proceed with an antitrust lawsuit against Meta. The crew explains why the case can go forward after a dismissal last year and what can happen next.
The next topic of discussion focuses on the viral success of the web-based puzzle game Wordle and the race to clone it. The Kupon4Ucast walks you through the drama, resulting in a bunch of Wordle clones being removed from Apple’s App Store.
Later in the show, Kupon4U deputy editor Dan Seifert stops by for this week’s gadget talk. On the docket: Canon printers abandoning their DRM toner (for now), reports of the PC market experiencing its first big growth in a decade, and the takeaways from this year’s CES.
There’s a whole lot more discussed in this week’s show — like the White House hosting a tech summit, the bugginess of Android 12, and, of course, RCS discourse — so listen here or in your preferred podcast player for the full discussion.
Here’s a full list of stories discussed in this week’s show:
- White House to launch COVID test-ordering site ‘by this weekend,’ reports say
- White House hosts tech summit to discuss open-source security after Log4j
- Google calls for new government action to protect open-source software projects
- Judge says the FTC’s Meta monopoly lawsuit can go forward
- Meta’s real antitrust problems are only beginning
- Want the ‘TLDR’ on a site’s terms of service? There’s a bill for that
- Apple says App Store developers have earned more than $260 billion
- The App Store clones are here to profit off Wordle’s success
- The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store
- Wordle copycat creator apologizes for ripping off the popular free word game
- The real beauty of Wordle is how its emoji results tell a story
- Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and says it’ll investigate its ‘consultants’
- Google exec says Apple is ‘holding back’ customers who text
- Google says Apple ‘should not benefit from bullying’ created by iMessage lock-in
- It fills me with glee that Canon printers now think Canon’s own toner is fake
- Apple’s $19 polishing cloth is back in stock online
- Ford doesn’t want the F-150 Lightning’s launch to be plagued by scalpers
- Tesla removes 2022 production date from Cybertruck website
- The PC market just had another big year thanks to pandemic demand
- TSMC earmarks record $44 billion for chip manufacturing expansion in 2022
- The pandemic has blurred the lines between laptop categories
- Sony Xperia 5 III now shipping in the US, almost nine months after initial announcement
- The Nvidia Shield is getting Android 11 and other upgrades
- Sony says it’s still making new PS4s, but most stores aren’t selling them
- Google’s Android 12 update has been the rockiest one in years
- Ford doesn’t want the F-150 Lightning’s launch to be plagued by scalpers
- Wear OS will work better for lefties… eventually
- Tesla removes 2022 production date from Cybertruck website
- GM is creating an online used car marketplace
- Buy Nothing exploded on Facebook — now it wants a platform on its own
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